Andersson, Karin

Abstract [en]

This evaluation
concerns a health- and democratic project, carried out by the local
authority Landstinget Sörmland together with Länsbildningsförbundet
Sörmland, of two studycircles; Vårdens svåra val (The difficult
priorities in Medical and caretaking services) and Det goda livet
(The good life). The purpose was, through the participant-s
experiences; to describe the studycircleproject from a democratic-
and a health perspective. The research includes interviews,
observations and a miner analyse of the materials.
A holistic health perspective, shows that the studycircle can be
good for the health, though it provides the participant tools to
perform acts witch can lead to one ore several goals. This can in
turn lead to new knowledge of both the own and the societies
condition. An important role, according to the participant-s
experiences regarding the democracy aspects, is the material. Det
goda livet, can describes as closed; the experts tells, without
including the participants, howe to live a good life. The
connection towards the society disappears and the democratic parts
are shadowed by a steered, individual, education.
The study also showed five different
-studycircleframes- witch illustrate the necessity of
the circles two divergent poles; nearness through distance and
distance through nearness.